W.H. Allen & Company 1964. Hardback with unclipped dust jacket in fair/ acceptable used condition - some heavy browning/ foxing/ fading to jacket front, back and along spine. Also some light wear to corner edges of jacket. Boards are a little faded and pages are lightly tanned but otherwise clean. Binding is fine throughout. There is an owners name and date in inkon front end paper.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, and political activist, who wrote many other books such as Being and Nothingness,Existentialism....& Human Emotions,The Transcendence of the Ego,Search for a Method,Critique of Dialectical Reason,The Emotions: Outline Of A Theory,The Psychology of Imagination,Between Existentialism and Marxism, etc.
Jean Genet was a vagabond, petty thief and prostitute across Europe, who was in and out of prison through a series of arrests for theft, lewd acts, and other offenses. However, he wrote a series of novels while in prison. When threatened with a life sentence after ten convictions, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others successfully petitioned the French President to have the sentence set aside. He became a famous novelist and playwright.